Text and Language Lab

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Text and Language Research Group

The Text and Language Lab at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen–Nürnberg (FAU), led by Prof. Michaela Mahlberg, is an interdisciplinary research group within DHSS.

Text and Language Research Group

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Recent Posts

From 27 to 31 July 2026, colleagues from the Department of Digital Humanities and Social Studies (DHSS) joined the international Digital Humanities community in Daejeon, South Korea, contributing to the AVinDH Special Interest Group’s pre-conference programme and presenting research across audiovisual analysis, computational literary studies and digital social research. The 36th annual Digital Humanities conference…Read more

The Text & Language Lab team took part in the 8th Corpora and Discourse International Conference (CAD 2026), held at Lancaster University, UK, from 23–25 June 2026. CAD 2026 brought together researchers from across the world working at the intersections of corpus linguistics and discourse analysis, with contributions spanning corpus-assisted discourse studies, corpus-based and corpus-driven…Read more

We are delighted to welcome James Tauber as a PhD candidate in the Text and Language Lab, led by Prof. Michaela Mahlberg in the Department of Digital Humanities and Social Studies. James’s doctoral research explores linguistic variation in narrative fiction, combining corpus linguistics, computational narratology, and natural language processing. His work focuses on how language…Read more

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Prof. Dr. Michaela Mahlberg

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Dr. Katrin Rohrbacher

Research Associate (Postdoc)

Dr. Ismail Barakat

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Nathan Dykes, M. A.

Research Assistant (PhD student)

James Tauber , M. A. 

Research Assistant (PhD student)

Andreas Wagner, M. Sc.

Research Assistant (PhD student)

Janno Reincke, M. A.

Research Assistant (PhD student)

Kinshuk Dayal Saraswat

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Our research group publishes work across digital humanities, computational linguistics, and related fields. Explore our latest publications and browse our complete publication record.

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